#PEPFAR

With the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief budget up in the air, advocates worry that PEPFAR will cap HIV treatment elsewhere.

HIV scientists and advocates are waging a powerful war against the global epidemic.

One estimate: 9 million years of lost life in South Africa and Ivory Coast in one decade.

“We are at a tipping point in the fight against AIDS, with a quickly closing window of opportunity.”

Maintaining funding at only existing levels, which appears likely, would probably stall progress in combating the virus worldwide.

A massive national campaign to step up testing as well as viral suppression achieved phenomenal results in just five years.

An edited excerpt of an opinion piece titled “Dear President Trump: A Letter From the Congressional HIV/AIDS Caucus”

AIDS groups spell out how the proposed massive budget cuts will harm both local and global funding.

Foreign groups, including AIDS organizations, that even discuss abortion as a form of family planning will not receive U.S. money.

The group held a political funeral in response to the senator’s support for the Trump’s budget proposals and filmed the event.

But if lawmakers take the former president’s suggestions, would the global AIDS program deserve full support?

The proposal also takes away $300 million from the global initiative PEPFAR.

Say what? The budget saves HIV programs while slashing funds to vital health and human services.

So why do these national AIDS groups want Congress to reject the proposal?

U.S. Representatives Barbara Lee and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen urge the Trump administration to continue the U.S. commitment to fighting HIV/AIDS.

What will happen to the international HIV treatment program in the aftermath of President Trump’s abortion gag order?